Bhubaneswar Bags Smart City Empowering India Awards-2020

Bhubaneswar: Bringing yet another laurel for the state, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) has bagged the prestigious Smart City Empowering India Awards -2020.

BSCL won the award for its innovative “Mu Saviour’’ application to manage urban flooding across the city.

“Mu Saviour’’ is an information communication technology (ICT) based solution, which will help in curbing urban flooding in future. This app, which was piloted in Nayapalli and Shatabdi Nagar in December last year by BSCL and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation in partnership with German Development Cooperation (GIZ) using co-creation methodology by involving citizens of the pilot area.

“Mu Savior” app will help citizens in minimising the impact of urban flooding in vulnerable locations across the city.

The app collect information from citizens like i.e. is there any garbage in drains, what is the water level and what about the water flow in drains.These information will go to analytical system directly, where it will get analyzed along with pre-existing static information such as vulnerability map of the project area, drainage type, and capacity, land use type, number of populations staying in the locality, etc. based on this information the analytical system will send notification to city officials with a priority list on real-time basis.

Therefore, using that list the city officials can act accordingly and keep drains clean to reduce the impact of urban flooding.